Day 2--It's so easy to sin

3.Q. How do you come to know your misery?
   A. The law of God tells me

4.Q. What does God's law require of us?
    A. Christ teaches us this in summary in Matthew 22--Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all our mind and with all your strength.  This is the first and greatest commadment.  And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.  All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

5.Q. Can you live up to all this perfectly?
   A. No.  I have a natural tendency to hate God and my neighbor
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Concerning indwelling sin:
1. The law of sin always abides in the soul
2. It is always ready to apply itself
3. It applies itself to its work with the greatest facility and ease

John Owen, Sin and Temptation

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Matthew 3:1-2, 17  In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, "Repent, the the kingdom of heaven is at hand!"

From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heave is at hand."

Repent.
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Encouragement to be people of the Cross, a reflection for Lent in consideration for the 21 Christian martyrs who were called, People of the Cross

http://www.aholyexperience.com/2015/02/the-call-for-the-next-40-days-to-the-nations-people-of-the-cross/